FINIS

Publisher: (self-published)
Year: 1945
Pages: 20

FINIS was published shortly after Bejnamin DeCasseres died. His wife Bio wrote a short preface for it:

“In the last months of his life, the twilight time when all action recedes and life becomes luminous in silence, Benjamin DeCasseres wrote these four essays.
Alive with the poetic flavor of his word-mastery, here is illumination of the uttermost self, a book that is at once a breviary of philosophic fearlessness, a hymnal of the eternal verities.
Before his day had completely receded, “One last ecstatic glow that stains a hemisphere”, had arched itself above him and he penned the lines which have become the seal of his life’s work.”

Table of Contents

DEDICATION
INSCRIPTIONS
FOREWORD
I. THE IRRELATIVITY OF ALL RELATIVES
II. THE DEVALUATION OF ALL VALUES
III. THE EVOLUTION OF OBLIVION
VI. THE PRESENCE: HYMN OF A NIHILIST TO OBLIVION